[Justin Bill]

Re: Hello from a Buddhist

As far as I recall, the Mormon cult promise their deluded followers that when they die, they each get a Sesame Street to rule over, and that they get to use their multiple wives to give birth to an army of human/Jim Henson puppet hybrids to populate it. They are truly doomed.

it is true, they are truly doomed. doomed by their lust of miss piggy and big bird(big bird is a male to female transgender)

and they do it in oscar's trash can.

[JennyD]

Re: Hello from a Buddhist

I seriously believe this forum must be shut down. It is a hive of racism, anti-semitism, homophobia and complete hatred of all other religions. You have no right to display these messages of hatred and lets hope this forum will soon be gone.

James, may I assume you are 13, or are you actually 18 as required to post on God's Favorite Forum?

I also assume you are a foreigner and have not heard of the First Amendment right to Free Speech.

However, were there no First Amendment, we would still have the right under God's Law to spread His Gospel to all. In fact, it is our DUTY!

Now, can you please explain to us why you hate all these types of people?

You don't want us to help Negroes become Saved ex-Negroes. You want them to spend their lives in a death-oriented "culture" of hip-hop, watermelon, carjacking, jazz music, Kwanzaa, and KFC, then burn in Satan's Hell for eternity.

You don't want us to help Christ-killing Jews become Christ-loving, Saved True Christians. You'd rather they run the Federal Reserve and all world banks and control all God's people's financial lives.

You don't want us to help Hellbound Homersexuals become Heavenly Heterosexual ex-gays. No, you want someone to decorate your house properly, and do your Mommy's hairdo.

You don't want us to help Buddhists, Islamofascists, Hyundais, and all other followers of false religions to come to God. You want to experience "diversity", no matter the cost to those poor people.

You, James, want us to just shut up and let ALL these people -- Nigras, Jews, Chinks, Buddhists, Indians (the Hindu kind), Injuns (the American kind), Catholics, Homersexuals, and everyone else go straight to Hell without so much as a warning or a chance to turn from their wicked ways and allow the Love of Jesus into their cold, loveless Grinch hearts.

You, James, want us to help you in condeming all these people to an eternity of torture, rather than hurting their little feelings.

Tell me, James, if you had a puppy (since obviously you don't care about PEOPLE), and it was about to eat a piece of poisoned meat, would you take that meat away from it, knowing the puppy would be sad and angry with you? Or would you spare the puppy's feelings, and let it eat the poisoned meat and die slowly and horribly?

I await your response, assuming your master Satan will allow you to continue posting.

[Unfalsifiable]

Re: Hello from a Buddhist

Just to clear some of the anti Buddhist junk, frankly, people have been saying up: Buddhism is NOT a religion.

Worshipping statues and polytheism are all actually different religions of local regions not Buddhism. They just incorporate Buddhist teachings and twist them.

Buddhism in itself is actually atheist - it is not even classified as a religion! So if you want to take a childish swing at Buddhists, go with an atheist bash, not a pagan bash.

[Brother Cletus]

Re: Hello from a Buddhist

Buddhism in itself is actually atheist - it is not even classified as a religion! So if you want to take a childish swing at Buddhists, go with an atheist bash, not a pagan bash.

That has got to be one of the stupidest, most retarded things I have ever heard. You ever hear of a dictionary, friend? This is what it says:

Buddhism

–noun a religion, originated in India by Buddha (Gautama) and later spreading to China, Burma, Japan, Tibet, and parts of southeast Asia, holding that life is full of suffering caused by desire and that the way to end this suffering is through enlightenment that enables one to halt the endless sequence of births and deaths to which one is otherwise subject.

Did you catch the part of it being a religion? And what kind of atheist wants to worship a fat chink anyways?

[Unfalsifiable]

Re: Hello from a Buddhist

"There is no almighty God in Buddhism. There is no one to hand out rewards or punishments on a supposedly Judgement Day. Buddhism is strictly not a religion in the context of being a faith and worship owing allegiance to a supernatural being." Straight from Buddhanet.

I'm disappointed you would feel that I would post junk, you haven't even researched my statement. Yes Buddhism is widely considered a religion, but that really depends on how you are defining your words.

Buddhism is atheist.

[Brother Temperance]

Re: Hello from a Buddhist

Just to clear some of the anti Buddhist junk, frankly, people have been saying up: Buddhism is NOT a religion.

Buddhism is a demon cult. That is an indisputable Christian fact. Look at the #1 source of knowledge on the internet.

Buddhism is classified as the fifth largest religion in the world. Buddhist scriptures acknowledge that gods exist.

"There is no almighty God in Buddhism. There is no one to hand out rewards or punishments on a supposedly Judgement Day. Buddhism is strictly not a religion in the context of being a faith and worship owing allegiance to a supernatural being." Straight from Buddhanet.

Yeah, and the Democrats say they don't hate America. Trust a fat chink-worshipping cult to lie through their buck teeth every day of the week.

Buddhism is atheist.

Buddhists go to hell. That is all that matters.

[Justin Bill]

Re: Hello from a Buddhist

"There is no almighty God in Buddhism. There is no one to hand out rewards or punishments on a supposedly Judgement Day. Buddhism is strictly not a religion in the context of being a faith and worship owing allegiance to a supernatural being." Straight from Buddhanet.

I'm disappointed you would feel that I would post junk, you haven't even researched my statement. Yes Buddhism is widely considered a religion, but that really depends on how you are defining your words.

Buddhism is atheist.

how can buddhist be atheists when they believe in the divine nature of an individual soul? and that something called enlightenment occurs?

shrines, temples, songs, meditations.

say, why are you defending Buddhists? are you one?

some day landover will not be called a religion, it will be the name of the Government, and Jesus will be the king... so there

[Unfalsifiable]

Re: Hello from a Buddhist

I'm not Buddhist, but I just came in here to tell you all about Buddhism, I said at the start, Buddhism has been fiercely woven in to local Asian religions and that is why people label it as a religion. Fact is Buddhism is a philosophy, and it is a philosophy with no place for a God. Only pure Buddhists are not religious so therefore pure Buddhism is not religious!

The idea that people get reborn is simple science - I.e. we go in to the ground, maggots take us away, fertilise the earth with us - but that is purely a bodily thing. They get confused with the soul, unfortunately. Otherwise
its a pretty logical system.

[Pastor Ezekiel]

Re: Hello from a Buddhist

I'm not Buddhist, but I just came in here to tell you all about Buddhism, I said at the start, Buddhism has been fiercely woven in to local Asian religions and that is why people label it as a religion. Fact is Buddhism is a philosophy, and it is a philosophy with no place for a God. Only pure Buddhists are not religious so therefore pure Buddhism is not religious!

The idea that people get reborn is simple science - I.e. we go in to the ground, maggots take us away, fertilise the earth with us - but that is purely a bodily thing. They get confused with the soul, unfortunately. Otherwise
its a pretty logical system.

We are not the least bit interested in having you force your gook girlfriend's cult on us. We worship Jesus, not some obese jap. We are not interested in whatever depravity passes for "culture" in the ornamental cesspools of the world. We are not interested in your simpleton science, either.

Jesus temporarily died on the cross for my sins, not some slant.

[Unfalsifiable]

Re: Hello from a Buddhist

Well this was a thread about Buddhism, I'm sorry if I was expected to post anything but information and opinion on Buddhism in it. Perhaps you should close it if you don't want to see it?

Thanks for reading anyway, but I feel your racist terminology is a bit needlessly offensive and alienates me slightly.

[VictoryOS]

Re: Hello from a Buddhist

Unfalsifiable, I'm sorry you feel put off by our terminology. I can assure you we are not racist here at Landover. We want people of all colors to come to the Cross to be washed in His Blood. That includes the orientals and the nigras, not just different types of white folk. Rather than hide our eyes from the racial differences, we choose to look at them directly so we may find the best way to bring people from around the world to GOD. We pray that you, too, will be saved by His Grace someday.

[JennyD]

Re: Hello from a Buddhist

Just to clear some of the anti Buddhist junk, frankly, people have been saying up: Buddhism is NOT a religion.

Worshipping statues and polytheism are all actually different religions of local regions not Buddhism. They just incorporate Buddhist teachings and twist them.

Buddhism in itself is actually atheist - it is not even classified as a religion! So if you want to take a childish swing at Buddhists, go with an atheist bash, not a pagan bash.

I'm not Buddhist, but I just came in here to tell you all about Buddhism, I said at the start, Buddhism has been fiercely woven in to local Asian religions and that is why people label it as a religion. Fact is Buddhism is a philosophy, and it is a philosophy with no place for a God. Only pure Buddhists are not religious so therefore pure Buddhism is not religious!

Sorry, home fry. You are so far off the mark, you might as well be in another time zone!

There are three schools of Buddhism. Never heard of them? I guess not.

Here they be, little boy. I'm quoting not from any source you won't trust, but from here: http://www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/history/schools.htm

Yes, that says BUDDHANET.

Theravada Buddhism:

In the Buddhist countries of southern Asia, there never arose any serious differences on the fundamentals of Buddhism . . .

The earliest available teachings of the Buddha are to be found in Pali literature and belongs to the school of the Theravadins, who may be called the most orthodox school of Buddhism. This school admits the human characteristics of the Buddha, and is characterised by a psychological understanding of human nature; and emphasises a meditative approach to the transformation of consciousness. The teaching of the Buddha according to this school is very plain. He asks us to 'abstain from all kinds of evil, to accumulate all that is good and to purify our mind'. These can be accomplished by The Three Trainings: the development of ethical conduct, meditation and insight-wisdom.

The philosophy of this school is that all worldly phenomena are subject to three characteristics - they are impermanent and transient; unsatisfactory and that there is nothing in them which can be called one's own, nothing substantial, nothing permanent. All compounded things are made up of two elements - the non-material part and the material part. They are further described as consisting of nothing but five constituent groups, namely the material quality, and the four non-material qualities - sensations, perception, mental formatives and consciousness. When that perfected state of insight is reached, i.e. Nibanna, that person is a 'worthy person' an Arhat. The life of the Arhat is the ideal of the followers of this school, a life where all (future) birth is at an end, where the holy life is fully achieved, where all that has to be done has been done, and there is no more returning to the worldly life'.

This is the school of which you are thinking. It is also the LEAST commonly-practiced in the world. OOPS.

Mahayana Buddhism

The Mahayana is more of an umbrella body for a great variety of schools, from the Tantra school (the secret teaching of Yoga) well represented in Tibet and Nepal to the Pure Land sect, whose essential teaching is that salvation can be attained only through absolute trust in the saving power of Amitabha, longing to be reborn in his paradise through his grace, which are found in China, Korea and Japan. Ch'an and Zen Buddhism, of China and Japan, are meditation schools.

It is generally accepted, that what we know today as the Mahayana arose from the Mahasanghikas sect who were the earliest seceders, and the forerunners of the Mahayana. They took up the cause of their new sect with zeal and enthusiasm and in a few decades grew remarkably in power and popularity. They adapted the existing monastic rules and thus revolutionised the Buddhist Order of Monks. Moreover, they made alterations in the arrangements and interpretation of the Sutra (Discourses) and the Vinaya (Rules) texts. And they rejected certain portions of the canon, which had been accepted in the First Council.
According to it, the Buddhas are lokottara (supramundane) and are connected only externally with the worldly life. This conception of the Buddha contributed much to the growth of the Mahayana philosophy. The ideal of the Mahayana school is that of the Bodhisattva, a person who delays his or her own enlightenment in order to compassionately assist all other beings and ultimately attains to the highest Bodhi.

As you can see, within the Mahayana schools, there are a variety of beliefs. Some DO include deities.

Vajrayana Buddhism (Tibetan Buddhism)

This is the kind of Buddhism predominant in the Himalayan nations of Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan, and also Mongolia. It is known as Vajrayana because of the ritual use of the vajra, a symbol of imperishable diamond, of thunder and lightning. At the center of Tibetan Buddhism is the religious figure called the lama, Tibetan for "guru"," source of another of its names, Lamaism. Several major lineages of lamas developed, beginning in the ninth century with the Nyingma-pa. Two centuries later, Sarma-pa divided into the Sakya-pa and the Kagyu-pa. Three hundred years later, one of Tibet's revered lamas, Tsong-kha-pa, founded the reforming Gelug-pa.

Tibetan Buddhist Lineages

• Nyingma-pa Tracing its origin to the Indian adept, Guru Padma-sambhava, who came to Tibet in 817 C.E. at the invitation of King Trisong Detsen (742-797) in order to subdue the evil forces then impeding the spread of Buddhism. This lineage of Buddhism is uniquely Tibetan in that many aspects of the traditional Bon religion are mixed together with more properly Buddhist beliefs and practices to form a unique expression of Buddhist piety. This lineage emphasizes the move towards more advance stages of enlightenment through "preliminary practice" that comprises the beliefs and practices of Buddhism before the advent of Tantra, and through the "higher practices," which involve the attainment of enlightenment through the chanting of magical spells, special hand gestures and mystical diagrams.

• Sakya-pa The lineage has descended intact up to the present time from Khon Könchok Gyelpo(1034-1102), founder of the Sakya tradition. From the doctrinal point of view the tradition traces its origins to the Indian Yogin Virupa through Gayadhara. His disciple Drogmi Shakya Yeshe (992-1074) travelled to India where he received teachings on the Kalachakra, the Path and its Fruit, and others from many Indian masters and returned to Tibet. Later, Khon Könchok Gyelpo, one of his main disciples, built a monastery in the Tsang province of central Tibet and named it Sakya, or Grey Earth monastery. So the school took its name, Sakya, from the location of the monastery. Succession to the position of head of the Sakya tradition has been hereditary since the time of Khon Könchok Gyelpo. The present incumbent is the 4lst occupant of the Sakya Throne. The central teaching and practice of the Sakya-pa, called Lam-dre (Lam-bras), the Path and Its Fruit, ultimately leads a practitioner to the state of Hevajra. The Path and Its Fruit is a synthesis of the entire paths and fruits of both the exoteric and esoteric classes of teachings.

• Kagyu-pa The lineages of the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism derive primarily from two sources: Marpa Chökyi Lodro (1012-1099) and Khyungpo Nyaljor (978-1079). Marpa received the lineage of tantric teachings called the Four Commissioned Lineages - concerning the Illusory Body and Consciousness Transference, Dreams, Clear Light, and Inner Heat directly from Naropa (1016-1100), who had been given them by his teacher Tilopa (988-1069). Mahamudra, the unique feature of Kagyu tradition, can be explained according to interpretations of sutra and tantra. Both aspects of the teachings are aimed at direct understanding of the real nature of the mind. The approach to Mahamudra, which differs slightly within each Kagyu school, generally follows through the stages of foundation, path and fruit. Tantric practices unique to Kagyu tradition are the Six Yogas of Naropa, Chakrasambhava and Mahakala. In the context of tantric practice, the application of Mahamudra becomes much more profound and sophisticated.

• Gelug-pa Founded by Tsong-kha-pa (1357-1419) as a reform movement within Tibetan Buddhism, followers acclaimed the third teacher as an incarnation of the bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara, thus inaugurating the line of the Dalai Lama, the fourteenth and most recent of whom was born in 1935. Emphasis in this lineage is on a strict monastic discipline and on the conviction that the bodhisattva, a Buddha who has foregone final nirvana out of compassion for all sentient beings, is continually present. This tradition remains dynamic even after coming into exile. The major Gelug monasteries, Sera, Drepung, Ganden, and Tashi Lhunpo monasteries and Gyumey Tantric College have been re-established in various Tibetan settlements in Karnataka, and Gyutö Tantric College has been re-established in Bomdila, Arunachal Pradesh, all in India.

The Gelug-pa lineage is the one hosted by the world-renowned Dalai Lama. It is one of the schools of Tibetan Buddhism.

I posted information about Tibetan Buddhism and its pantheon of demons (or, as they call them, gods) earlier in this thread. It looks like you didn't bother to read the thread before deciding to enlighten us with your wealth of knowledge of Buddhism.


You can correctly say that Theravada Buddhism is a non-theist philosophy. That is true. However, that is only one of the three major schools of Buddhism today; and Buddhism as a religion is as multifaceted as the varieties of False Christianity.

You may wish to call all the Mahayana and Vajrayaha Buddhists "False Buddists". The Dalai Lama and Richard Gere might disagree.

Try doing your homework before spouting off "facts" at us, little boy. WE DO OURS.

[Unfalsifiable]

Re: Hello from a Buddhist

I'm sorry but I have said throughout the thread that Buddhism is involve in religions. I'm not sure why you are accusing me of not knowing this when I've been saying it. Re-read?

[JennyD]

Re: Hello from a Buddhist

I'm sorry but I have said throughout the thread that Buddhism is involve in religions. I'm not sure why you are accusing me of not knowing this when I've been saying it. Re-read?

No, you have insisted that Buddhism is not a religion, and that Buddhists are atheists.

Clearly, when there are three major schools of Buddhism and only one is atheist, your assertion is false.

As I stated in my earlier post -- which you clearly did not read -- you can accurately say that Buddhism began as an atheist philosophy, or that the teachings of Buddha were atheist; you can even say that Mahayana Buddhism (the minority school) is an atheist philosophy. However, you cannot accurately say that Buddhism is not a religion, nor can you say that Buddhism is atheist.

[Brother Temperance]

Re: Hello from a Buddhist

I'm not Buddhist, but I just came in here to tell you all about Buddhism, I said at the start, Buddhism has been fiercely woven in to local Asian religions and that is why people label it as a religion. Fact is Buddhism is a philosophy, and it is a philosophy with no place for a God. Only pure Buddhists are not religious so therefore pure Buddhism is not religious!

The idea of a pure Buddhist is ridiculous. Buddhists are not born-again Fundamentalist Christians, so they are by definition hell-bound and burdened with sin. That doesn't sound very pure to me.

Buddhism is involve in religions.

Is one of the commandments of that chink demon cult you follow that you have to start talking like that little nip Hitoshima?